Franz Kafka | Franz Kafka
May.06.2013
When you read a good writer the world, for that moment, can seem no other way. Crime and Punishment is imbued with Dostoyevsky’s sense of the world. Had Tolstoy written Crime and Punishment, we would have visited a different Russia world. One might argue that...
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Apr.18.2013
Children liked Kafka, and he liked them. He was comfortable around children and - I suspect - children looked upon Kafka as a big, kinda odd, kid himself. He doted on his nieces and nephews (one of the few things he had in common with this father). And Kafka was playful, for there was much to enjoy...
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Feb.09.2013
IN A WORLD OF NO
…all that I cared for was the race of dogs,
that and nothing else… To whom but [dogs]
can one appeal in the wide and empty world?
–Franz Kafka
In a world of No,
dogs are a Yes.
Sixty-eight million dogs in America
and...
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Sep.21.2012
There is information in this article which I did not know - always a pleasing situation when learning about Kafka. I did not realize that the bulk of his extant manuscripts were given to his nieces by Max Brod and it was they, in turn, who gave them to Oxford University's Bodleian Library. How...
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Jul.03.2012
My brother contends - correctly - that we all only have one birthday - the actual day of our birth. All the others are anniversaries of that date. And Kafka would probably agree. What is the point of having words if they do not mean what they mean? However, Kafka would be far too polite an...
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Mar.10.2012
I love reading about the daily writing routines of famous authors. Franz Kafka, for instance, almost never sat down to write before 11 o'clock at night, and then only for an hour or two. He was urged by others to reorganize his day to be more efficient,...
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Feb.13.2012
Kafka read a fair amount of Dickens, albeit in translation. He based his plotting technique and atmosphere for Amerika on Dickens' David Copperfield. But, as he indicates in his diary entry of 08 October 1917, he had reservations of Dickens along with his enthusiasm:
"The Stoker is a sheer...
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Dec.20.2011
Kafka (as far as is known) never wrote plays - though he loved the theatre. Václav Havel not only wrote plays with themes akin to Kafka's observations, but he lived through the crazed government bureaucracy which Kafka foretold. And then Havel one-upped Kafka by helping to battle and...
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Dec.15.2011
The White House announced today that it would not veto the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. The NDAA mandates the military to arrest and indefinitely detain any person, including American citizens, anywhere in the world, including on US soil, who is accused by authorities as a terrorist...
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Oct.08.2011
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (10/06/2011)(readMedia)-- As part of the celebration of Elizabethtown College's new president, the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President is sponsoring a two-year series of lectures by distinguished full professors who are actively engaged in scholarship....
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